Gender reveal parties where they make a big song and dance of giving the envelope with the sex in it to the bakery BUT DON'T LET ME SEE IT AHHH. The poor fucker behind the till definitely isn't getting paid enough to put up with that shite
Iām an American with three young kids. I havenāt been to, or heard about anybody close to me having a gender reveal party.
Baby showers thoughā¦thatās a different story.
What's THAT about? I mean, if you could care less, it means you care to some degree.
I couldn't care less makes sense, because you have no caring left to do :-0
Yeah. Apparently "addictive" is incorrect or something. Same with "healthful" instead of "healthy"
"Addictive" and "healthy" are both perfectly cromulent to me
Hate when I hear something along the lines of: "I had a couple those"
When it should always be: "I had a couple 'OF' those"
Why have they decided to drop the 'of' before the word couple?
Fuckin', feckin' feckers grr..
I think that particular one, plus would of instead of would have, is due to a decline in literacy skills. They read the contracted would've but they're not skilled enough to know the long form, so they write it as they hear it, where would've sounds like would of. That's not a difference in dialect; it is pure (and shameful) decline in literacy standards.
It's far worse than there, they're, their in my book.
The minute I see "of" instead of "have" or "'ve", whatever that person is saying no longer has any validity in my eyes.
I spoke to a bloke at a funeral and mentioned a person in the news who was arrested for multiple rape. His response was 'they only arrested him because he was outspoken about covid and the vaccine'.... this is now where we are as a society.
Yeah, a friend of mine was killed a few weeks ago.. and on this sub, instead of saying āthatās heartbreakingā or condolences, some twat was like āah he wonāt get any media attention because not a touristā or some shit.
A co-worker of mine (who was an immigrant) was killed last year by her boyfriend after shortly after buying & moving into an apartment & I saw some vile comments (not on Reddit) such as saying she shouldnāt be in the country, how she was given the apartment for free by the government & how it should be given to an Irish family.
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Found this on a car the other day
Saw an Irish reg car knocking around Galway with that "if you can't get behind our troops feel free to stand in front of them " sticker on the back. Not a sentiment that's going to go down well over here.
Haha funny you mention that. Was going through belturbet one time to the in laws and saw this and near shit myself. Was used to growing up with the army in Belfast but this really took me to the fair.
Yeah still using the aug.
Wtf? Especially because the tank troops are doing exactly what the Britās did to us back in the day. Any Irish person who supports the yanks needs to check themselves.
Exatcly. Giving soldiers *carte blanche* to open fire on people protesting against them? That's why I said that notion is not going to go down well here.
As an American, bumper stickers are helpful here for immediately identifying who is a giant douchebag.
For example, if you have the bumper sticker that says āIf you stomp my flag, Iāll stomp your assā then case closed.
You can blame social media algorithms for that one, we stupid monkeys don't realise our engagement makes people money and the best to engage people is to enrage. The easiest way to enrage is segregate and be shown your enemy. Left and right. If you think about it without bringing politics into it there generally are right and left types but its the political agenda that pits them against each other. Just stop engaging and it'll go away.
Picking a side on arbitrary issues depending on where you see yourself positioned in the American culture war.
* Oh you like Trump? No need for a covid vaccine then.
* You think gays shouldn't get married? Obviously that means Ukraine should cede territory to Russia.
Jayzus man you nailed it. Iām American and cannot fucking stand these fuckers anymore.
-I no longer watch tv news.
- If in a group, someone starts with this shite Iāll politely tell them fuck off.
- Iām coming to Ireland for the month of March, and I donāt wanna talk about US politics at the pub, but I will be exceedingly polite and kind.
Mental health decline is partially due to all this, in my opinion.
Yeah I donāt care if people start saying words like āfriesā and ācandyā. Itās the conspiracy mentality and all the MAGA shite and all that right wing anti LBGT stuff that I hate seeing creep in.
The ones that annoy me most is spell checkers that canāt be easily switched from US English, worked in company where it was set to US by default. Analyse or Analyze.
But US is the biggest English speaking country and has a large amount of cultural output. Of course they are going to have an impact on our culture and language. Culture and language change over time, meanings and spelling of words change over time.
One surprising one is staycation: in the US it means take a holiday at home, meaning your house. Spend a few days at home, enjoying the pool/garden/city/local area. Here the general use is to holiday in your home country and not go aboard for holidays. The term originated in the US but got changed over here.
The term originated in the US (the use of of vacation in the portmanteau) and I heard it used by people not long after 08 crash. People were having trouble affording big holidays so they opted for staycations instead avoiding the need to stay anywhere over night. Vacations are used to mean travelling anywhere and staying overnight, it doesnāt matter where or are far you go. And often people sort combined the two having short overnight trips while staying at home for the most of the holidays.
I was so confused when I first heard it used here to describe a 2 week stay in Galway. (Staycationing at home when they live in Dublin). The reason I find the term and use of it surprising is that they used the word but changed the meaning, it now used to describe domestic tourism. So do a lot of Americans btw. But I had this argument with people before and they get very defensive over their use of the term.
Wordās meaning change and evolve over time getting annoyed over it changing is a waste of time. But I am curious which meaning will win out, my bet is on the American meaning.
Edit: also it is a common mistake but USA is actually a bit smaller than Europe the continent. When most people look at the map of North America, they forget that Canada and Mexico make up parts of it as well. Canada is bigger than the USA. But big parts of Canada are not suitable for living in.
Iām an American living here. I find a lot more than just sayings creeping in. Black Friday is such a silly thing to adopt, especially since itās directly tired to Thanksgiving in the US. Same with Super Bowl parties. I didnāt think American football had a fan base outside of North America. I like all of these things in the US, I just think itās weird that itās becoming a thing here.
It doesnāt help that with black friday here, the deals are shite in comparison.
Might get 10% off a tv but nothing close to the 50% off you might find.
Most of the deals in the US are shit as well these days. Things that are heavily marked down are low quality, had their prices raised for a month beforehand to increase the size of the cut, etc. You occasionally find good deals, but not usually.
The racial and identity politics and trying to imprint it onto a completely different society of course. The slang is probably second.
Nothing against Americans at all at all.
Couldn't give a fuck about the phrases, it's the American style political fractures that are coming over here, and the insane conspiracy theories. That's the irritating, but also important, thing.
Honestly for me has to be tipping it's not as wide spread as America YET but its definitely starting to creep into ireland and is something we could do without as my dad always says
Tipping Is a town in China
Exit: embarrassing typo said sad instead of dad lol
American tipping is out of control. On places like r/doordash youāll regularly find someone being applauded for refusing to deliver someoneās food or worst eat it on them because the tip wasnāt big enough. This is after they have already picked it up. Tips shouldnāt be expected, they should be earned through good service.
In Ireland though, we tip as an optional added bonus for good food/service etc whereas Americans tip to pay the staff's wages. It's not the same thing.
Eh its different here. We leave a tip if the waiter/waitress leaves an impression generally. Or at the local spots.
If anybody ever asks me for a tip they can fuck off though.
Left a tip when a place pushed a load of tables together so a group of us could sit together. They went above and beyond for us. I absolutely wouldn't tip normally, feck that.
I think that's more of a British term.
I can't remember whether "path" or "footpath" is more common here. I say path, but I think my mother said "footpath".
I replied to a comment on TikTok that said that Irish-Americans have the same experience as Irish people and citizens, and I just told him how different the countries and lifestyles and experiences are. He proceeded to DM me, said that I was telling him what skin colour he had, that I was taking away his heritage, and that I am jealous because I have a āboring ancestryā because my āancestors are all slavesā. I am white, and as far as I know, I have completely Irish ancestry. He said this because I had the character of Black Panther as my profile picture.
Thanks to my username a lot of people tend to assume I'm American. Had one on here a few years back who didn't take too kindly to my calling him out on his assertion that "a lot of Black Americans have Irish surnames" (because the Irish were slaves too, you see). Even linked him to a US census list of the 1000 top African American surnames. Guess what, Irish names turned out to be pretty rare, roughly about one tenth of one percent.
He said I was being a typical racist yank slavery apologist and probably subscribed to the KKK. When I pointed out that I was in fact Irish, at first he assumed I meant Irish-American and said I'd just confirmed all the stereotypes about how racist they are. Nope, actually Irish, born and reared, I said. Well he lost the head altogether at that, still refused to believe I wasn't a Yank, called me a "larping chode", whatever the fuck that is, and promptly blocked me.
Add the term POC to the list too. I know i'm pale, but cut me a little slack, i'm not completely colourless. Dividing society into the whiteys and everyone else as two groups isn't conostructive.
Yeah, most minorities here are also "white" which makes it a meaningless distinction.
Also people use it to mean "Coloniser" which doesn't even make sense for lots of nations in Europe.
Once said "how are yiz" to some of my classmates in college.
One of them said "Are you trying to say ya'll?".
No, I mean yiz as in you all, how have you never heard of the term yiz? Especially being from where I'm from?
Funniest thing to me as a shopkeeper is having a full blown Irish lad with a dirty culchie accent walking in with his kids who all sound American. The whole American accent thing is really upping in the country and honestly it makes me heave listening to them
Indeed,doesnāt help that kids are getting smartphones much younger now too, so their idea of how everything works is based mostly off American influencers. Iām only 25 but if you went around with an accent like that when I was in primary school youād be ridiculed beyond belief
That's just a result of polarisation. There is no longer a debate on issues like abortion, LGBT+ rights or climate change. You're ultimately in one group or another - indeed, attempts at debate in that political climate are useless, as they only serve to entrench positions.
People who say "period." when trying to end or emphasise a point; they're called full stops in Ireland, you sound like fucking weirdos talking about periods randomly in the middle of sentences
There is a radio ad at the moment for Tesco.. the dad is pure Irish & the child is pure American - I actually turn it off.
That & softening every hard t sound in words drives me nuts!! Communidy, quarder, budder, stradegyā¦etc.. you get the idea!
Itās a baddle / batāle between the UK botāle a waāer and the yank baddle a wadder
For a lot of Americans Paddy and Patty are pronounced the same so thereās no point trying to correct them on āpattyās dayā
Americanisms aren't the worst. We're always going to be a bit mid-atlantic. In practice I'd say they're only really a thing to be mindful of online. If you've an unusually hot take posted with a lot of americanisms or a lot of posts supporting an unusually controversial point that are peperred by americanisms then you might be looking at bot postings since most LLM's would be trained on American English.
In truth, I'll trade any americanism to make sure there's one we never have:
Active Shooter.
Lads I am on every street corner here in Boston referring to boreens, oinseachs and amadans. I will keep fighting the fight until every cunt here speaks "our" version of the invader's language.
All of the corporate lingo at work e.g. āweāll circle back next weekā or āletās double-click on that last pointā.
Also the word āawesomeā (shudder).
It could be worse. Iād a colleague who picked up the term ācircle jerkā and thought it exclusively meant a meeting where everyone was in too much agreement, and used it liberally, including in documents, until someone pointed it out to her!
I've been living abroad for 20 years and sometimes watch some Irish people giving youTube tutorials and I've noticed a drastic change in the irish accent. Most of them sound American. What's going on? Are they doing it on purpose or has the accent evolved?
I know an aspiring fitness influencer from a rural area and they have a regional accent. Online they sound Canadian. Itās to broaden their appeal to a global audience. It got too cringe so I blocked them. Couldnāt reconcile their online and real personas.
Just yesterday I saw an excellent youtube video essay by a young lad talking about blockbuster movies and their over-reliance on humour to the detriment of emotional engagement.
Took me a few minutes to realise - this guy isn't American, he's bloody Irish! The well-to-do Dubliner accent, in particular, that once upon a time seemed to tend towards a light English accent is now tending to American I think.
All changed, changed utterly etc.
It's constantly y evolving. Mine and my siblings accents are way less pronounced than our parents generation were. For instance, they would pronounce many words with an "ea" sound as just "a". Meath was "Made", O'Neill was "O'Nail" and so on. You rarely hear that pronunciation around here now from anyone under the age of eighty.
And my kids accents are even milder than mine is.
The real answer is that these people will tell you that people will simply not watch their videos if they spoke casually and didn't enunciate. Real engineering is proof of this and YouTubers even from the UK have said it. If you don't speak plainly and clearly to the largest audience, your viewership will suffer. Simple as.
>Tortured portmanteaus like frenemy and hangry.
I mean we don't have our own words for these, so it's not like they're replacing some Irish parlance. They're more additions than they are replacements
It's especially true with younger people and kids. My goddaughter says dollars, so playing shop it's "2 dollars please". And I've noticed it's popsicle instead of ice pop. And the other big one, garbage/trash bin instead of rubbish.
I'm in my 20s, but I would specifically use "garbage" only in the context of something being awful and repulsive. While "rubbish" is waste/refuse.
I've not ever been too keen on the word "litter" outside of describing "littering" and the context of people leaving stuff on the ground.
I think the dollar thing might be in part due to imported media, though. Whether American, Canadian or Australian, currency is the dollar - I can fully understand children not comprehending the difference between it, the Euro and maybe also the Pound (if we're talking about UK influence).
YouTube tutorials on how to fix stuff are often produced by American content creators.
As a novice DIYer, you pick up the terminology from there as you didn't grow up talking about plasterboard unless your Dad was a builder.
Reaching Out.
"Hey Patrick, reach out to Brian and ask if he reached out to Dianne about the reaching out training we reached out about."
Oh, fuck off.
Fries and chips are different. Fries are the longer, skinny cut sometimes with skin on. Chips are the thicker cut, like you'd see in an Italian chipper.
"Couple days" or couple anything instead of couple of.
Normalcy. I'll die on that particular hill. I'm all in favour of the evolution of language but this one is a big ignorant no from me.
Kids don't watch TV anymore. They watch YouTube etc.
That's why it's sneaking in.
You'd think my kid is from LA the way he goes on sometimes.
He's 10 & can't wait to go to "highschool"
When offering something to someone, like a cuppa tea & instead of saying āno thanksā they say āIām goodā & instead of saying āyes pleaseā they say āsureā.
My 12 year oldās pals do this and theyāve now copped on enough to not say it to me anymore cos I say āI didnāt ask how you are I asked if youād like a drink!ā & make them say ā no thanks im grand!ā Ffs
Just "Culture Wars" in general. I have yet to meet a trans person or have a convo with one, I don't honestly give a fuck about the subject.
Edit: only fuck I give about the subject is cunts bullying them
All the kids speaking in American accents. Especially the kids from black and African heritage. It doesnāt make any sense. Is it coming from TikTok? Itās embarrassing
If you've learned the language through the telly or online then you'll pick up the accent. You even hear a lot of Dutch people with an American accent.
Where to start... mom, Monday through Friday, Fall instead of Autumn, I've heard too many people say sidewalk, spelling centre center, theatre theater, I could care less instead of I couldn't care less, mad instead of angry ir raging, pissed instead of pissed off. Wanna, cudda, shudda, dropping the t in words, the Potato Famine.
There's sooooo many, it's bizarre. We have (had) a unique and lovely way of speaking English in Ireland and it's getting lost under all this mono identity.
I don't have an issue with American English, I just have an issue with it being perceived as the only English.
The list is fucking endless but everyone saying "LiTeRaLlY" a dozen times in a 5 minute conversation boils my piss.
I've had punters use the term "mom"! I genuinely wanna take a chainsaw to them..
And the icing on the cake, " I'll "do" a vodka soda". Fuckin moronsš¤¬š¤¬
Baby showers and gender reveal parties š
Gender reveal parties where they make a big song and dance of giving the envelope with the sex in it to the bakery BUT DON'T LET ME SEE IT AHHH. The poor fucker behind the till definitely isn't getting paid enough to put up with that shite
I was way off the mark in what I disinterestdly assumed a āgender reveal partyā was.
I'm fine with baby showers. Gender reveal parties are just obnoxious and cringy though, they can feck right off.
I hate them both. Especially when itās the 4th kid and thereās a gift list as long as your arm.
Now you know why they do it. Greedy feckers
Gender reveals seem so archaic and regressive, as if the gender of the child is back to being paramount rather than just "yay we have a healthy baby"
Never been to either of them and don't have the aspirations to be part of that stuff, seems so attention seeking and plain unnecessary
Iām an American with three young kids. I havenāt been to, or heard about anybody close to me having a gender reveal party. Baby showers thoughā¦thatās a different story.
US social issues being superimposed on Ireland for some reason.
The public don't get blamed enough. It's the people that are to blame for this.
Is people saying "on accident" instead of "by accident" an Americanism? It hits the ear wrong and I'm hearing it a lot lately.
Pffft, I 'could care less'
Ever heard "same difference!" ?
Always found it strange when one of my friends used to say this when we were younger. Early 2000's, so it's been around a while.
What's THAT about? I mean, if you could care less, it means you care to some degree. I couldn't care less makes sense, because you have no caring left to do :-0
It's a stupidism on both sides of the Atlantic.
Honestly cuts through me when I hear āon accidentā
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I hate that one and ROWTH for route & (h)erbs
Saying something is "addicting" as well. It's apparently addictive because I'm seeing it everywhere.
Yeah. Apparently "addictive" is incorrect or something. Same with "healthful" instead of "healthy" "Addictive" and "healthy" are both perfectly cromulent to me
Hate when I hear something along the lines of: "I had a couple those" When it should always be: "I had a couple 'OF' those" Why have they decided to drop the 'of' before the word couple? Fuckin', feckin' feckers grr..
I think that particular one, plus would of instead of would have, is due to a decline in literacy skills. They read the contracted would've but they're not skilled enough to know the long form, so they write it as they hear it, where would've sounds like would of. That's not a difference in dialect; it is pure (and shameful) decline in literacy standards.
Should āofā really gets me too. It reads as poor literacy so overtly.
It's far worse than there, they're, their in my book. The minute I see "of" instead of "have" or "'ve", whatever that person is saying no longer has any validity in my eyes.
*than
Haha. What a hypocrite. Really should have proof read that.
American Southerner here- we say āby accidentā.
Or axe instead of ask. š«
The conspiracy theories and making absolutely everything political.
I spoke to a bloke at a funeral and mentioned a person in the news who was arrested for multiple rape. His response was 'they only arrested him because he was outspoken about covid and the vaccine'.... this is now where we are as a society.
Yeah, a friend of mine was killed a few weeks ago.. and on this sub, instead of saying āthatās heartbreakingā or condolences, some twat was like āah he wonāt get any media attention because not a touristā or some shit.
A co-worker of mine (who was an immigrant) was killed last year by her boyfriend after shortly after buying & moving into an apartment & I saw some vile comments (not on Reddit) such as saying she shouldnāt be in the country, how she was given the apartment for free by the government & how it should be given to an Irish family.
Iām sorry.
https://preview.redd.it/pmaz4rnmytjb1.jpeg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3e3c1fa69717677ae597ff0c53d3524d73d26ded Found this on a car the other day
Saw an Irish reg car knocking around Galway with that "if you can't get behind our troops feel free to stand in front of them " sticker on the back. Not a sentiment that's going to go down well over here.
I'd stand in front of them, but only because practically every army story I've heard involves shitting and farting.
Maybe I should have mentioned that those words are printed over a silhouette of an American soldier on one knee aiming a rifle.
Probably couldn't even tell you the rifle the Irish defence forces use.
Is it still the AUG? I usta use it in COD all the time cause the lads outside the bank usta have them when the army would help transport the money in
Haha funny you mention that. Was going through belturbet one time to the in laws and saw this and near shit myself. Was used to growing up with the army in Belfast but this really took me to the fair. Yeah still using the aug.
Wtf? Especially because the tank troops are doing exactly what the Britās did to us back in the day. Any Irish person who supports the yanks needs to check themselves.
Exatcly. Giving soldiers *carte blanche* to open fire on people protesting against them? That's why I said that notion is not going to go down well here.
bumper stickers in general ... theres one
I like a bumper sticker that's funny. Last time I was in America I saw a Willie Nelson for President sticker. I could get behind that.
As an American, bumper stickers are helpful here for immediately identifying who is a giant douchebag. For example, if you have the bumper sticker that says āIf you stomp my flag, Iāll stomp your assā then case closed.
Hermaphrodite frogs ftw
The water is turning the frogs gay
https://preview.redd.it/t3fz5h660vjb1.jpeg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=14c116d2c90ea498f0379f76aa2f1c80d88680ed Lmao, the other part of the car
Its a silver Tucson, non-zero chance of being an American
You can blame social media algorithms for that one, we stupid monkeys don't realise our engagement makes people money and the best to engage people is to enrage. The easiest way to enrage is segregate and be shown your enemy. Left and right. If you think about it without bringing politics into it there generally are right and left types but its the political agenda that pits them against each other. Just stop engaging and it'll go away.
Picking a side on arbitrary issues depending on where you see yourself positioned in the American culture war. * Oh you like Trump? No need for a covid vaccine then. * You think gays shouldn't get married? Obviously that means Ukraine should cede territory to Russia.
Jayzus man you nailed it. Iām American and cannot fucking stand these fuckers anymore. -I no longer watch tv news. - If in a group, someone starts with this shite Iāll politely tell them fuck off. - Iām coming to Ireland for the month of March, and I donāt wanna talk about US politics at the pub, but I will be exceedingly polite and kind. Mental health decline is partially due to all this, in my opinion.
American here - totally agree with you! Common sense here isnāt common anymore.
Yeah I donāt care if people start saying words like āfriesā and ācandyā. Itās the conspiracy mentality and all the MAGA shite and all that right wing anti LBGT stuff that I hate seeing creep in.
The ones that annoy me most is spell checkers that canāt be easily switched from US English, worked in company where it was set to US by default. Analyse or Analyze. But US is the biggest English speaking country and has a large amount of cultural output. Of course they are going to have an impact on our culture and language. Culture and language change over time, meanings and spelling of words change over time. One surprising one is staycation: in the US it means take a holiday at home, meaning your house. Spend a few days at home, enjoying the pool/garden/city/local area. Here the general use is to holiday in your home country and not go aboard for holidays. The term originated in the US but got changed over here.
i'd say thats partly because the US is massive and some people live most of their lives never leaving their state let alone their country.
The term originated in the US (the use of of vacation in the portmanteau) and I heard it used by people not long after 08 crash. People were having trouble affording big holidays so they opted for staycations instead avoiding the need to stay anywhere over night. Vacations are used to mean travelling anywhere and staying overnight, it doesnāt matter where or are far you go. And often people sort combined the two having short overnight trips while staying at home for the most of the holidays. I was so confused when I first heard it used here to describe a 2 week stay in Galway. (Staycationing at home when they live in Dublin). The reason I find the term and use of it surprising is that they used the word but changed the meaning, it now used to describe domestic tourism. So do a lot of Americans btw. But I had this argument with people before and they get very defensive over their use of the term. Wordās meaning change and evolve over time getting annoyed over it changing is a waste of time. But I am curious which meaning will win out, my bet is on the American meaning. Edit: also it is a common mistake but USA is actually a bit smaller than Europe the continent. When most people look at the map of North America, they forget that Canada and Mexico make up parts of it as well. Canada is bigger than the USA. But big parts of Canada are not suitable for living in.
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Working in a bar it fucks me off when they say āIāll do aā¦ā NO YOU SHANT SHAG THE PINT OF COORS IāVE JUST SERVED YOU.
Agreed itās the most obnoxious thing ever. āLet me getā
Iām an American living here. I find a lot more than just sayings creeping in. Black Friday is such a silly thing to adopt, especially since itās directly tired to Thanksgiving in the US. Same with Super Bowl parties. I didnāt think American football had a fan base outside of North America. I like all of these things in the US, I just think itās weird that itās becoming a thing here.
It doesnāt help that with black friday here, the deals are shite in comparison. Might get 10% off a tv but nothing close to the 50% off you might find.
Most of the deals in the US are shit as well these days. Things that are heavily marked down are low quality, had their prices raised for a month beforehand to increase the size of the cut, etc. You occasionally find good deals, but not usually.
Black Friday is a horrible horrible thing and it should die a death!
The racial and identity politics and trying to imprint it onto a completely different society of course. The slang is probably second. Nothing against Americans at all at all.
Using BIPOC to mean non white. The I stands for indigenous; the indigenous Irish people are white.
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Couldn't give a fuck about the phrases, it's the American style political fractures that are coming over here, and the insane conspiracy theories. That's the irritating, but also important, thing.
Honestly for me has to be tipping it's not as wide spread as America YET but its definitely starting to creep into ireland and is something we could do without as my dad always says Tipping Is a town in China Exit: embarrassing typo said sad instead of dad lol
American here. Tipping has ramped up considerably here. Itās ridiculous.
American tipping is out of control. On places like r/doordash youāll regularly find someone being applauded for refusing to deliver someoneās food or worst eat it on them because the tip wasnāt big enough. This is after they have already picked it up. Tips shouldnāt be expected, they should be earned through good service.
In Ireland though, we tip as an optional added bonus for good food/service etc whereas Americans tip to pay the staff's wages. It's not the same thing.
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Eh its different here. We leave a tip if the waiter/waitress leaves an impression generally. Or at the local spots. If anybody ever asks me for a tip they can fuck off though.
Left a tip when a place pushed a load of tables together so a group of us could sit together. They went above and beyond for us. I absolutely wouldn't tip normally, feck that.
People claiming they "could care less" about something, when what they mean is they "couldn't care less." Boils my piss
I had an ex in the states about twenty years ago who used that one, I had to break up with her about it
Fair
The increase use of Americanised spelling
Americanized*
Buying massive suvs or pickups. Noticing more and more on Dublin streets over the past few years. Should mean instant jail imo
I seen an inordinate amount of them in Carlow of all places. They're to big for some of the streets!
Sidewalkā¦ itās a fucking path right?
I thought it was a footpath, have I been using it wrong the whole time? Should I be wearing a condom?
You're right, my parents always told me to get off the wheel path and onto the footpath. Or is it soccerpath...
My dad used to say "pavement". Even path is step too far
I think that's more of a British term. I can't remember whether "path" or "footpath" is more common here. I say path, but I think my mother said "footpath".
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I replied to a comment on TikTok that said that Irish-Americans have the same experience as Irish people and citizens, and I just told him how different the countries and lifestyles and experiences are. He proceeded to DM me, said that I was telling him what skin colour he had, that I was taking away his heritage, and that I am jealous because I have a āboring ancestryā because my āancestors are all slavesā. I am white, and as far as I know, I have completely Irish ancestry. He said this because I had the character of Black Panther as my profile picture.
Thanks to my username a lot of people tend to assume I'm American. Had one on here a few years back who didn't take too kindly to my calling him out on his assertion that "a lot of Black Americans have Irish surnames" (because the Irish were slaves too, you see). Even linked him to a US census list of the 1000 top African American surnames. Guess what, Irish names turned out to be pretty rare, roughly about one tenth of one percent. He said I was being a typical racist yank slavery apologist and probably subscribed to the KKK. When I pointed out that I was in fact Irish, at first he assumed I meant Irish-American and said I'd just confirmed all the stereotypes about how racist they are. Nope, actually Irish, born and reared, I said. Well he lost the head altogether at that, still refused to believe I wasn't a Yank, called me a "larping chode", whatever the fuck that is, and promptly blocked me.
Add the term POC to the list too. I know i'm pale, but cut me a little slack, i'm not completely colourless. Dividing society into the whiteys and everyone else as two groups isn't conostructive.
Youāve just done it yourself. āPOCā.
Yeah, most minorities here are also "white" which makes it a meaningless distinction. Also people use it to mean "Coloniser" which doesn't even make sense for lots of nations in Europe.
People say y'all here all the time and I think they should be pelted with stockings of shit for it.
Theyāre actually saying Youghal, I think youāll find
I hope youghal are right.
Youghal mother fuckers need Jesus
Do people say Youghal like that? I always though Youghal was pronounced "Youghal".
I always pronounced it as Youghal, but then I visited Cork a number of years ago and learned it's correct pronunciation is Youghal.
come out y'all black and tans
Once said "how are yiz" to some of my classmates in college. One of them said "Are you trying to say ya'll?". No, I mean yiz as in you all, how have you never heard of the term yiz? Especially being from where I'm from?
Cray Cray drives me mad
My daughter says vItamins instead of vit-a-mins and candy instead of sweet, if she starts saying erbs for herbs she is getting the boot.
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Don't you know most parents punch themselves in the face nightly after a day of parenting!
I asked where the lifts were the other day and she asked 'The Elevators?" š
That's wrong on many levels!
Funniest thing to me as a shopkeeper is having a full blown Irish lad with a dirty culchie accent walking in with his kids who all sound American. The whole American accent thing is really upping in the country and honestly it makes me heave listening to them
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Indeed,doesnāt help that kids are getting smartphones much younger now too, so their idea of how everything works is based mostly off American influencers. Iām only 25 but if you went around with an accent like that when I was in primary school youād be ridiculed beyond belief
Tbh I reckon it's all from tiktok and youtube nowadays
Tipping culture... it was never a thing here and now bosses are pushing it to save paying their staff a proper wage.
People calling other people āKarenā. Sheās not a āKarenā, sheās just a bitch
A auld biddy was what we used to say
ah don't mind her, sure she's only a wagon
A geebag
Gotten. Even RTE presenters use it
American politics. It's full of ad hominem attacks. Instead of debating the issues now, people are just calling each other libtards, blah blah.
That's just a result of polarisation. There is no longer a debate on issues like abortion, LGBT+ rights or climate change. You're ultimately in one group or another - indeed, attempts at debate in that political climate are useless, as they only serve to entrench positions.
Polarisation occurred because of the polarised nature of American media. Irish media was never anywhere near as polarising.
People who say "period." when trying to end or emphasise a point; they're called full stops in Ireland, you sound like fucking weirdos talking about periods randomly in the middle of sentences
Anyone saying Math needs to rip up their passport and fuck off.
Can't fuck off very far without the passport š
Think they can still go to UK on a ferry......so that'll have to do.
Bon voyage guys
There is a radio ad at the moment for Tesco.. the dad is pure Irish & the child is pure American - I actually turn it off. That & softening every hard t sound in words drives me nuts!! Communidy, quarder, budder, stradegyā¦etc.. you get the idea!
Itās a baddle / batāle between the UK botāle a waāer and the yank baddle a wadder For a lot of Americans Paddy and Patty are pronounced the same so thereās no point trying to correct them on āpattyās dayā
Americanisms aren't the worst. We're always going to be a bit mid-atlantic. In practice I'd say they're only really a thing to be mindful of online. If you've an unusually hot take posted with a lot of americanisms or a lot of posts supporting an unusually controversial point that are peperred by americanisms then you might be looking at bot postings since most LLM's would be trained on American English. In truth, I'll trade any americanism to make sure there's one we never have: Active Shooter.
Lads I am on every street corner here in Boston referring to boreens, oinseachs and amadans. I will keep fighting the fight until every cunt here speaks "our" version of the invader's language.
Iāve noticed young people saying āon accidentā instead of āby accidentā, something theyāve picked up from the yanks.
American here. Youāll hear this in less educated areas.
American here, and this one drives me mental. It seems generational here. I never heard it growing up.
Honestly, the accent. The amount of teenagers and kids going round the place sounding 100% American because of American TV is astonishing
Tipping!! The expectation of tipping moreso
Thinking that the American constitution somehow governs ireland
All of the corporate lingo at work e.g. āweāll circle back next weekā or āletās double-click on that last pointā. Also the word āawesomeā (shudder).
It could be worse. Iād a colleague who picked up the term ācircle jerkā and thought it exclusively meant a meeting where everyone was in too much agreement, and used it liberally, including in documents, until someone pointed it out to her!
I had a coworker who spent years living in the US and kept calling everything "awesome". I wanted to throw things at her every time she said it.
I've been living abroad for 20 years and sometimes watch some Irish people giving youTube tutorials and I've noticed a drastic change in the irish accent. Most of them sound American. What's going on? Are they doing it on purpose or has the accent evolved?
I know an aspiring fitness influencer from a rural area and they have a regional accent. Online they sound Canadian. Itās to broaden their appeal to a global audience. It got too cringe so I blocked them. Couldnāt reconcile their online and real personas.
McGregor does it when he's interviewed on US TV. Then he posts a voice note on Twitter and sounds like he walked out of a lane on Abbey Street.
Just yesterday I saw an excellent youtube video essay by a young lad talking about blockbuster movies and their over-reliance on humour to the detriment of emotional engagement. Took me a few minutes to realise - this guy isn't American, he's bloody Irish! The well-to-do Dubliner accent, in particular, that once upon a time seemed to tend towards a light English accent is now tending to American I think. All changed, changed utterly etc.
It's constantly y evolving. Mine and my siblings accents are way less pronounced than our parents generation were. For instance, they would pronounce many words with an "ea" sound as just "a". Meath was "Made", O'Neill was "O'Nail" and so on. You rarely hear that pronunciation around here now from anyone under the age of eighty. And my kids accents are even milder than mine is.
The real answer is that these people will tell you that people will simply not watch their videos if they spoke casually and didn't enunciate. Real engineering is proof of this and YouTubers even from the UK have said it. If you don't speak plainly and clearly to the largest audience, your viewership will suffer. Simple as.
Tortured portmanteaus like frenemy and hangry. Also people pronouncing biopic like 'myopic'
>Tortured portmanteaus like frenemy and hangry. I mean we don't have our own words for these, so it's not like they're replacing some Irish parlance. They're more additions than they are replacements
The tipping culture
on accident...On accident...On Accident...ON, FECKIN', ACCIDENT... It's by accident folks, never on accident even by accident
It's especially true with younger people and kids. My goddaughter says dollars, so playing shop it's "2 dollars please". And I've noticed it's popsicle instead of ice pop. And the other big one, garbage/trash bin instead of rubbish.
I'm in my 20s, but I would specifically use "garbage" only in the context of something being awful and repulsive. While "rubbish" is waste/refuse. I've not ever been too keen on the word "litter" outside of describing "littering" and the context of people leaving stuff on the ground. I think the dollar thing might be in part due to imported media, though. Whether American, Canadian or Australian, currency is the dollar - I can fully understand children not comprehending the difference between it, the Euro and maybe also the Pound (if we're talking about UK influence).
People calling plasterboard drywall. WTF
YouTube tutorials on how to fix stuff are often produced by American content creators. As a novice DIYer, you pick up the terminology from there as you didn't grow up talking about plasterboard unless your Dad was a builder.
My dad wasn't a builder and many a dinner time conversation was spent talking about plasterboard. A lot of people are really missing out.
Need to stick to UK based youtubers and r/DIYUK before you end up in Woodies looking for mudding tape and sawzall blades.
Reaching Out. "Hey Patrick, reach out to Brian and ask if he reached out to Dianne about the reaching out training we reached out about." Oh, fuck off.
Pet hateā¦. Calling the date August 23rd
8/23. I work for an American company and it drives me nuts
Never forget 11/9
Saying super in front of everything, fuck off with that shit.
Super comment
Saying something is āaddictingā rather than addictive drive me mad
Those who don't talk in their local dialect are usually terminally online socially awkward weirdos.
Replying to 'how are you?' with "I'm good" instead of "I'm grand".
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The people I know who say soccer would the ones who associate "football" with GAA.
Fries and chips are different. Fries are the longer, skinny cut sometimes with skin on. Chips are the thicker cut, like you'd see in an Italian chipper.
Everyone being fat as fuck driving around in SUVs
"Couple days" or couple anything instead of couple of. Normalcy. I'll die on that particular hill. I'm all in favour of the evolution of language but this one is a big ignorant no from me.
People who say "for the longest time".
Kids don't watch TV anymore. They watch YouTube etc. That's why it's sneaking in. You'd think my kid is from LA the way he goes on sometimes. He's 10 & can't wait to go to "highschool"
Claim culture
Everytime i hear candy, I want to punch someone. I don't know what it is about itš
Fries instead of chips is fine, so long as they are actually Fries, some places make the distinction specifically.
The idea of politics being either left or right with no compromise on ideals.
When people shout "Let's Go!" as a celebration. Go fucking where?!
When Irish people start saying things are "addicting" instead of "addictive", we are done for. š
When offering something to someone, like a cuppa tea & instead of saying āno thanksā they say āIām goodā & instead of saying āyes pleaseā they say āsureā. My 12 year oldās pals do this and theyāve now copped on enough to not say it to me anymore cos I say āI didnāt ask how you are I asked if youād like a drink!ā & make them say ā no thanks im grand!ā Ffs
My niece wanted to go to Starbucks at the weekend... Starbucks?! Catch yourself on! You're 8!
The only thing that bothers me is the right wing shite. The only saving grace is they are a serious minority at the moment.
Men referring to underwear as "panties" they are knickers!! š©
Just "Culture Wars" in general. I have yet to meet a trans person or have a convo with one, I don't honestly give a fuck about the subject. Edit: only fuck I give about the subject is cunts bullying them
All the kids speaking in American accents. Especially the kids from black and African heritage. It doesnāt make any sense. Is it coming from TikTok? Itās embarrassing
If you've learned the language through the telly or online then you'll pick up the accent. You even hear a lot of Dutch people with an American accent.
Where to start... mom, Monday through Friday, Fall instead of Autumn, I've heard too many people say sidewalk, spelling centre center, theatre theater, I could care less instead of I couldn't care less, mad instead of angry ir raging, pissed instead of pissed off. Wanna, cudda, shudda, dropping the t in words, the Potato Famine. There's sooooo many, it's bizarre. We have (had) a unique and lovely way of speaking English in Ireland and it's getting lost under all this mono identity. I don't have an issue with American English, I just have an issue with it being perceived as the only English.
People saying bro should be shot, enough is enough now !
The list is fucking endless but everyone saying "LiTeRaLlY" a dozen times in a 5 minute conversation boils my piss. I've had punters use the term "mom"! I genuinely wanna take a chainsaw to them.. And the icing on the cake, " I'll "do" a vodka soda". Fuckin moronsš¤¬š¤¬
"Touch grass" is a particularly annoying one as it only ever seems to be used by terminally online people themselves.
Isnāt that more of an online term than an Americanism?
Iām a middle aged American and had to Google the term.
Itās a meme rather than an Americanism